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Kleine Beyträge zur Testaceotheologie, oder, Zur Erkäntniss Gottes aus den Conchylien, in einigen Sendschreiben herausgegeben : nebst einem Anhang von denen berühmtesten Naturalien sonderlich Conchylien- Sammlungen zu Wien

by: Chemnitz, Johann Hieronymus, 1730-1800; Seligmann, Johann Michael, 1720-1762, engraver; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner. DSI; Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937-, donor. DSI; Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1760

Topics: Mollusks, Nature

Publisher: Frankfurt ; Leipzig : [s.n.]

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: German

This edition published anonymously; another edition published the same year bears Chemnitz's name

Woodcut title vignette (type ornament), decorative initials

Plate signed: J.M. Seligmann excud. Norimbergae

Signatures: )(B-RS²

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SCNHRB copy (39088013484142) has ink stamp (with cancel mark) on verso of t.p.: Natur W. Museum in. Basel

SCNHRB copy has bookplate; Smithsonian Institution Libraries, bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Stamped on front paste-down: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California. Gift of Clyde Roper

SCNHRB copy has reproduction of the plate and a dealer's description of the title laid-in

SCNHRB copy has old marbled paper boards, title in ms. on spine; housed in an archival cardboard box

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Cullman Library (rare book)

Addeddate: 2009-08-04 17:56:18

Associated-names: Seligmann, Johann Michael, 1720-1762, engraver; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner; Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937-, donor; Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, former owner